interview-framework-codex SKILL.md skillA

interview-framework-codex from tzachbon/smart-ralph is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add tzachbon/smart-ralph/interview-framework-codex@git:20260902.ac7251a

Pins git:20260902.ac7251a in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
tzachbon/smart-ralph
Path
plugins/ralph-specum-codex/skills/interview-framework-codex/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
2
Latest version
git:20260902.ac7251a, committed Sep 2, 2026
First version recorded
Aug 28, 2026
Size
4,315 bytes
Repository stars
567
License
MIT

Internal Ralph Specum contract for Codex phase interviews, skill manifests, approval, and delegation gates. Phase coordinators load this skill directly; users do not invoke it as a workflow phase.

Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.

What the file says

# Codex interview framework

Run every normal-mode `start`, `triage`, `research`, `requirements`, `design`, and `tasks` phase through `references/algorithm.md` and `references/domain-modeling.md`.

## Completion criterion

Delegate only after all of these conditions hold for one identity tuple:

- `phase`, `interviewId`, `discoveryRevision`, and `contextDigest` match in state and in the delegation packet.
- The selected skill manifest has status `complete` or `partial_warned`.
- The phase interview has status `complete` or `skipped` after explicit final approval.
- `phase_gate.py check-delegation` succeeds.

## Hard-transition invariant

Run the current `check-delegation` immediately before each affected phase transition or child dispatch. A failed `check-delegation` in either mode stops this invocation before state transition, child dispatch, or target-artifact write. After a normal-mode failure, the next explicit invocation uses a fresh manifest/interview identity. After an exact `--quick` delegation failure, the next explicit invocation reruns discovery, records a fresh `phaseSkillLoad` and interview identity, and does not reuse a terminal `bypassed_quick` interview or its…
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Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add tzachbon/smart-ralph/interview-framework-codex@sha256:4313be7012297099

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260902.ac7251a, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.

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Versions

The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Aug 28, 2026 and Sep 2, 2026, about one every 5 days.

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git:20260828.cbfd12c2026-08-28 cbfd12c 3,364 BA view

Audit of the latest version

A  17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.
  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (4315 bytes)
  • pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
  • pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
  • pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
  • pass: No credential-shaped string
  • pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
  • pass: No text hidden with inline styles
  • pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
  • pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
  • pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
  • pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
  • pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
  • pass: No link to a raw IP address
  • pass: No script tag

Source

GitHub

tzachbon/smart-ralph · 567 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-28 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_ntf4uhn7asjukybd
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=tzachbon/smart-ralph/interview-framework-codex
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/4313be70122970994c9f2cb10f9ff33c8bab1f419f223b1aaa7270c2aaf13047

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